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JEMMETT WELL KNOWN HERE; Giant Artist, Drowned at Biarritz, Had a Picturesque Career.

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. ();

July 25, 1925,

, Section AMUSEMENTS HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS, Page 6, Column , words

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LONDON, July 24. -- W.B. Jemmett, the English portrait painter who was drowned at Biarritz yesterday in attempting to save an Englishwoman, was one of the most picturesque figures in the artistic Bohemian life of London and Paris, where he was known as the "Piccadilly Giant."

July 25, 1925

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